Police Officer and The Beating of 2 Year Old Girl Near Death
..The girl- was listed in critical condition Friday at Children’s Mercy Hospital. Authorities said she suffered brain injuries and a skull fracture. Doctors performed emergency surgery to relieve pressure in the child’s brain. The child also had healing bruises on her forehead, back and neck, and an adult bite mark on her left leg... a brain scan revealed that the left-side of her brain is beginning to swell. He said doctors do not believe there is much hope... Eickmeier said she is upset that she is being kept from seeing her child. "I'm the one who she's used to holding her when she gets hurt," said the mother...
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2 year-old Alyssa Eickmeier
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...He said that the girl’s mother and he were concerned that they would not be able to afford the cost of hospital bills and funeral arrangements, so his best friends Matt and Jessicia Myers were setting up a fund for his daughter. Late Saturday night, he said he was going over to their home to help set up a myspace.com page to help memorialize his daughter with photographs and tell people about the fund. To donate to the Alyssa Eickmeier Fund, contact Hillcrest Bank in Overland Park at (913) 492-7500.
City Police Officer Nicholas Minet
Condition of abused girl worsens
Father says 2-year-old is near death. Authorities have accused a Kansas City police officer.
By JOYCE TSAI
The Kansas City Star
Oct. 22, 2006
Father says 2-year-old is near death. Authorities have accused a Kansas City police officer.
By JOYCE TSAI
The Kansas City Star
Oct. 22, 2006
The condition of an abused 2-year-old girl took a deadly turn for the worse Saturday — despite hopes that she had been improving a night earlier, her father said.
“She is definitely going to die,” said her father, Chris Eickmeier. “There’s just no chance.”
Alyssa Eickmeier was injured early Thursday in her Clay County residence and taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital. Authorities have accused Kansas City police officer Nicholas A. Minet, 28, of shaking her and throwing her down because she would not stop crying. He is charged with first-degree assault and abuse.
The change in Alyssa’s condition was a terrible blow to her father and the rest of the family, Eickmeier said, because they had hoped she would recover.
“Yesterday, before everyone left the hospital, she was showing eye movement. She was moving on her own,” he said. But by Saturday morning, that had all changed, he said. Tests showed that the other side of her brain had swollen, he said.
Although doctors plan to perform another test this morning, it’s clear that Alyssa won’t make it, he said.
She suffered brain injuries and a skull fracture Thursday, and doctors performed emergency surgery to relieve pressure in her brain, authorities said Friday. She also had older bruises on her forehead, back and neck that were healing and an adult bite mark on her left leg, court records said.
According to the documents, Minet was babysitting the girl at her home in the 400 block of Northwest 71st Terrace, and he had become frustrated with her when she started to cry and shook her.
“This was just a shocking thing. No one was ready for this,” Eickmeier said.
He said that the girl’s mother and he were concerned that they would not be able to afford the cost of hospital bills and funeral arrangements, so his best friends Matt and Jessicia Myers were setting up a fund for his daughter.
Late Saturday night, he said he was going over to their home to help set up a myspace.com page to help memorialize his daughter with photographs and tell people about the fund.
“Any loving father in his right mind — it makes you insane it’s for real,” he said. “Three days of crying, three days of up and down emotions, how would you feel?”
“I’m used to my daughter happy and all over the place,” he said.
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How to help
To donate to the Alyssa Eickmeier Fund, contact Hillcrest Bank in Overland Park at (913) 492-7500.
